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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges and universities count on us to pay for the people who can't afford college.  So they don't give any breaks and have an unrealistic idea of what people can afford -- we have two in college next year and we are not getting any breaks for this, they are still expecting us to pay full load even though we will have two in college.  Yeah, no problem, even in-state that's going to come out to about $40-50K for one year.

It's back breaking.[/quote]
Something’s got to give.  It doesn’t seem sustainable.  It’s crazy that the expectation is to save 100-200k per kid to go to school.  Not even fancy schools.  The middle class is getting royally screwed. [/quote]

Real Middle Class aren't screwed as they are lower income and get financial aid.  OP is not low income and had 18 years to save.  Some of it is lifestyle choices.  We choose not to live in a big or fancy house.  We choose not to take vacations.  We choose to keep our cars till they die.  It was our priority to save and we did it on less income than OP.[/quote]same here[/quote]

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